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Telecom meets terahertz

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Excitation and gate tuning of terahertz plasmons in dual-layer graphene integrated into on-chip telecom photonic waveguides using infrared lasers has now been demonstrated. This may open the door to atomically thick optoelectronic devices for security, tomography or data processing.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the graphene-based on-chip integrated device.

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  1. CIC Nanogune, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

    Alexey Y. Nikitin

  2. Donostia International Physics Center, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

    Alexey Y. Nikitin

  3. IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

    Alexey Y. Nikitin

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Nikitin, A.Y. Telecom meets terahertz. Nature Photon 12, 3–4 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-017-0073-4

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